Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

The project, launched by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), aims to trace the origin of thousands of ceramic vessels even when the kilns where they were fired have long vanished.

Symmetrical arrangements of botanical motifs indicate a grasp of spatial division long before the advent of formal written ...

Researchers are using chemical and mineral analysis to trace the origins of ancient pottery in Israel, building a national ...

A new study suggests flower patterns painted on 8,000-year-old pottery reveal early ideas of balance, symmetry and numerical ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Ceramics are one of the most important sources of information for archaeologists. Yet how these objects are produced, especially in the firing stage, has received little attention to date. The ...

Researchers have unearthed compelling evidence of one of humanity's oldest alcoholic beverages: rice beer. 10,000-year-old evidence was uncovered at the Shangshan site in Zhejiang Province, China. The ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered hidden clues about life in the hills of ancient southwest Samos, Greece.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israelis families display pieces of pottery found while volunteering at an excavation at Tel Maresha at the Beit Guvrin-Maresha ...